Assembler Limitations

Assembler Limitations

General Limitations

• MPASM assembler only looks in the path of the executable or the file being assembled for included files. Therefore, Include Path information entered in the MPLAB IDE Edit Project dialog will NOT be used by the assembler.

Source line limit (expanded) = 200 characters

File name limit = 8.3 format

Directive Limitations

• while nest limit = 8 deep while loop limit = 100 lines while iteration limit = 256

if nest limit = 16 deep

include nest limit = 5 levels include max. number of files = 255

macro nest limit = 16 deep macro source line limit (expanded) = 200 characters

Do not use #includes in macros.